handles?

[2fulhundin]

cultured marble? can it be used for handles and is it durable enough?

[Clydetz]

What is cultured marble?
In layman's terms, cultured marble is a mixture of fiberglass resin and crushed limestone. A more technical description is as follows: Cultured marble belongs to the family of cast polymers. Cast polymers are a mixture of an unsaturated polyester resin, highly filled with inorganic particulates and pigments. Fillers used are engineered calcium carbonates (for cultured marble), aluminum tri-hydrate (for cultured onyx) and aluminum tri-hydrate with a suspension of specialty formulated color chips (for cultured granite.)


Almost anything can be used for knife handles. As for the stability, shrinkage, durability, etc., I can't help you there. Seems to me it would be as good or better than reconstituted stone... just don't do a lot of 'whacking' with the knife. Just my 2 cents worth of wisdom.

[Mike Stewart]

It certainly can be used but it will not take any real hard use.

It can and will crack if dropped on a hard surface.

Mike

[Big Bad Mike]

Look here for a nice selection of stone like handle material: Masecraft Supply - Recon Stone (http://www.masecraftsupply.com/html/recon_stone.html)

[Mike Stewart]

We stock a lot of the Stuff like Corean and it's Copies.

We rarely get requests for it.

Mike

[RoadFish]

It certainly can be used but it will not take any real hard use.

It can and will crack if dropped on a hard surface.

Mike

What Mike says. Not very durable. Will surely crack if dropped or knocked.

[2fulhundin]

well that answered that question pretty fast.. yeah corean I have heard of I actually just gave Butch some to play with. but I came across 2 slabs of cultured marble if I wanted them. so I was trying to thinkk of what to do with it..
thanks guys

[Poolshark]

If its attractive you could use it for spacer material.

[2fulhundin]

it is white, they make window sill inserts from them. probably 1/4" thick

[Mike Stewart]

I still think that for a light Duty knife it is Good Stuff.

It does - indeed-make gret spacer material.

Mike